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3 teenagers detained for Istanbul attack |
2008-07-30 |
![]() The city's governor called it a "terror attack" but officials did not blame any specific group and no one immediately claimed responsibility. A television channel,citing security sources, said police suspect Kurdish rebels may be behind it because intelligence reports had suggested the rebels were planning a bombing campaign in Turkish cities. "There is no doubt that this is a terror attack," Governor Muammer Guler told reporters. The first bomb went off in the residential neighbourhood of Gungoren in a busy square closed to traffic where people congregate at night, witnesses said. A number of people rushed over to help the victims when a second, more powerful blast hit close by about 10 minutes after the first. Many of the casualties were from the second explosion, witnesses said. "The fact that there was a crowd in the area has increased the number of casualties," the governor said. |
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